From: Richard Urmonas (rurmonas@senet.com.au)
Date: 12/08/02-02:50:15 AM Z
On 2002.12.07 19:15 Judy Seigel wrote:
> But in one of these messages, which I seem to have lost, you said
> fairly
> strong fixer doesn't bother VDB -- or did I read it wrong? anyway, my
> tests with 3 strengths of plain sodium thio in water showed that
> anything
> stronger than the weakest (from memory 1 tbsp in 16 oz water) did
> indeed
> bleach out the print after about 30 seconds.
Judy,
That may have been me. I was trying to remove the silver using film
strength rapid fixer. After one hour, the VDB image was certainly
lighter, but still quite strong. I can only suspect that when the print
dries there is a further reaction which renders the image less soluble.
Richard
--- Richard Urmonas rurmonas@senet.com.au
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